Black Sunday

Starring
Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Ivo Garrani, Andrea Checchi, Arturo Dominici

Release Date: 1960

Run Time: 83 min.

Genre(s): Horror
Director(s): Mario Bava

Generally considered to be the foremost example of Italian Gothic horror, this darkly atmospheric black-and-white chiller put director Mario Bava on the international map and made the bewitching Barbara Steele a star. Steele plays Princess Asa, a high priestess of Satan who is gruesomely executed in 1600s Moldavia by having a spiked mask hammered into her face. Before she dies, Asa vows revenge on the family who killed her and returns from the grave two centuries later to keep her promise.

Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

Rosemary's Baby

Starring
Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans

Release Date: 1968

Run Time: 136 min.

Genre(s): Crime and Mystery, Drama, Horror

Director(s): Roman Polansk

Adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller,Waifish Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and her struggling actor husband, Guy (John Cassavetes), move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building.

Ghost Story

Starring
Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., John Houseman, Craig Wasson

Release Date :1981

Run time: 108 min

Genr: Horror

Director(s): John Irvin

This 1981 picture constitutes an adaptation of Peter Straub's colossal, bestselling novel. The central plot -- shared by both book and film -- revolves around the four elderly members of the Chowder Society (Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and John Houseman), who gather in each other's drawing rooms each winter to sip cognac and spin elaborate ghost stories. The four men also share a dark secret far more unsettling than fiction -- a secret which has literally come back to haunt them, as well as their own adult offspring